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March, 2014

NoSQL database platform company MarkLogic is having a successful period of growth and says that MarkLogic release 7 is marked out for its elasticity, tiered storage and semantics capabilities.
Semantic schemantic -- what could that mean?
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What is real time data anyway?
As you will know, in computing terms we talk about real time processing (or perhaps "computer responsiveness") as being that level of compute power and speed such that users PERCIEVE that the systems they use are operating at the same speed as human (or indeed...

Java 8 has been reengineered with the strength of Project Lambda Expressions.
Lambda, is a Java function that adds 'closures and related features' dedicated to supporting multicore programming.
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Oracle's Java coding cognoscenti gathered in the Czech capital of Prague this week to analyse, present and postulate over the arrival of the Java 8 language.
Now some 20-years after Sun Microsystems first envisioned and built the Java language and platform under the eye of James "father of Java"...

The 'developer' and 'operations' DevOps role is now an official part of the tech industry nomenclature.
The number of permanent and officially recognised DevOps Engineer posts in the UK has jumped 347% in the past two years.
This news comes alongside the discovery that 'DevOps Engineer' has...

Microsoft continues to claw its talons into the open source space this week by announcing that developers who run, manage, or commit to large and highly influential open source projects will now be "formally recognised" by the company's MVP Award Program.
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Sony is making it Authoring Tools Framework product available to programmers for free under the Apache 2.0 open source license.
The Authoring Tools Framework (ATF) will be free to download and use.
Industry commentators have suggested that this may now create an incentive for independent...

This is a guest post for Computer Weekly Open Source Insider by Adam Leventhal, CTO at Delphix, a company that helps virtualise database infrastructures to accelerate application rollouts and development.
The IT industry is in the midst of a mass platform migration.
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